The Big Four and the Development of the Accounting Profession in China

by Gary John Previts

Book Overview

Drawing upon established academic theory, the study argues that the Big Four, as part of a globalizing transnational capital class, has dominated indigenous firms by bringing to China an ideology that came to be accepted as normative. By winning this battle of ideology, the Big Four gained access to the coercive power of the State, and to the power of transnational institutions that have subsumed part of the power of the State. Indigenous firms have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783504854
• ISBN13: 9781783504855
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"